Environmental history of the Rhine-Meuse delta : an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise
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Environmental history of the Rhine-Meuse delta : an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise
Springer, c2010
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This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they cope with climate change and sea-level rise. The text offers a combination of in-depth ecology and environmental history. The synthesis presents a blueprint for future management and restoration, from progressive reclamation of land in the past, to adaptation of human needs to the forces of nature.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Human occupation and management of a fertile Delta
CHAPTER 2 - Prehistory and early history of the Delta
CHAPTER 3 - The Delta in the late middle ages (800 - 1500)
CHAPTER 4 - Technical achievements in river management (1500 - 1800)
CHAPTER 5 - River management after 1800: complete regulation and canalisation
Part 2 - The legacy of human intervention
CHAPTER 6 - Changes in the relation between man and nature
CHAPTER 7 - Land use: agriculture and use of wood
CHAPTER 8 - River fisheries through the ages
CHAPTER 9 - Floods and flood protection
CHAPTER 10 - Human intervention in the SW Delta
CHAPTER 11 - Human intervention in tributaries of the large rivers Part 3 - History of industrial pollution and its control
CHAPTER 12 - Changing Rhine ecosystems: pollution and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 13 - Changing Meuse ecosystems: pollution and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 14 - Pollution and rehabilitation of the aquatic environment in the Delta Part 4 - Ecology of biota in a man-made landscape: deterioration and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 15 - River-fish fauna of the Delta
CHAPTER 16 - Eelgrass wax and wane: a case study
CHAPTER 17 - Exotics and invasions of plants and animals
CHAPTER 18 - Changes in biodiversity: lower organisms, vegetation and flora
CHAPTER 19 - Changes in biodiversity: birds and mammals and their use Part 5 - An ecological story on evolving human - environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise - a synthesis
CHAPTER 20 - The making of the Delta
CHAPTER 21 - The future of the Delta
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